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Spite turns normal people into horse-paste-eating conspiracy addicts, says study

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 11, 2025
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When people are broke, powerless, or just mad that nobody's taking their YouTube channel about chemtrails seriously — they get spiteful. And that spite makes them believe conspiracy theories that make their lives even worse.

Researchers at Staffordshire University and the University of Birmingham, did three different stu…

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